Her daughter died in turn, and made one more.

A BROOD MARE.

It is a significant fact that the phenomenal improvement in horses during recent years is accompanied by the growing conviction that good points and a good record are as desirable in the dam as in the sire, if not more so.

I had a quarrel yesterday,

A violent dispute,

With a man who tried to sell to me

A strange amorphous brute;

A creature disproportionate,

A beast to make you stare,

An undeveloped, overgrown,